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...reprint of a comic book from another planet, it includes (minimal) dialogue in some untranslatable language. Anyone familiar with the bizarre works of Jim Woodring, who specializes in creating mute, inexplicable worlds of beauty and danger, will immediately see kinship between the two authors. The book looks, at arm's length, like something for kids, with cute characters akin to Pokemon, interacting in a colorful environment. But a closer read reveals a cruel world of domination and subjugation that often involves weird forms of violence. "Why is the purple guy having his skin torn off by the orange...
...attacker lunged at him with gleaming knife in hand, Irvin Faust deftly stepped aside and caught him by the wrist. He then pinned the attacker face-down to the ground using one arm while quickly disarming him with the other. The two then bowed to each other and sat back down. Faust, a sixth degree black belt in aikido from Albany, N.Y., was one of the high-ranking instructors—called sensei—invited to lead the spring seminar of the Harvard Aikikai, which took place last Saturday and yesterday at the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center. The seminar...
...secret of his willingness to use his best pitchers in unusual situations.“Every single weekend—and Coach Walsh will tell you the same thing,” Haviland said. “I try to beg my way into the games on Sunday. My arm never gets sore. If I’m on the hill [in relief in Game 4], there’s nowhere I’d rather be.”In Dartmouth, Haviland and the Harvard staff will battle against an unusual offense in that the Big Green features...
...Could it be the same with cute? Once too ashamed to embrace the adorable, we can do it online, in our own ironic way - an arm's-length distance from actually "snorgling" (per the C.O. Glossary: "Snort + Snuggle. Summarizes the situation when you moosh your face into a fuzzy wuzzy smoochie wiggle and make googoo noises.") . On the Internet, nobody knows you love dogs...
...limits me to four innings and thus does not allow me to qualify for a win (the winning starting pitcher needs a minimum of five innings) and leaves others having to pick up the slack. I understand that the decision-makers within the organization are trying to keep my arm healthy since the professional season is nearly three times longer than what I was accustomed to in college. But it can be frustrating, because I am used to competing for seven or eight innings as opposed to three or four.There is also a lot of turnover in the Minor Leagues...